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1850 map of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad. Work began on August 16, 1854, on the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge over the Allegheny River to extend the O&P into Pittsburgh to connect with the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bridge opened September 22, 1857, with a temporary station at Penn and Wayne Streets (today Penn Avenue and Tenth Street).
The line runs from Rankin north through Pittsburgh to West Pittsburg (near New Castle) [1] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, once the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad. The line begins in Rankin at the Pittsburgh Subdivision, almost directly under the Rankin Bridge, and runs along the east (right) shore of the Monongahela River.
The Pittsburgh and Western Railroad (reporting mark PW) was a nineteenth-century, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad connecting Pittsburgh with coal supplies and the oil field around Titusville, Pennsylvania. [1] Its right-of way formed the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west from Pittsburgh. It was reorganized in 1889 under ...
Main Line (Pittsburgh, PA to St. Louis, MO) Ohio Connecting Railway (Woods Run, Pittsburgh to Elliott, Pittsburgh) [1] Duffs Branch (Esplen, Pittsburgh to Thornburg) [1] Sheridan Branch (Esplen, Pittsburgh to Elliott, Pittsburgh) [1] Chartiers Branch (Carnegie to Washington) Bridgeville and McDonald Branch (Bridgeville to Cecil)
The western end of the line was simultaneously built from Pittsburgh, eastward along the Allegheny and Conemaugh rivers to Johnstown, while the eastern end was built from Harrisburg to Altoona. In 1848, the Pennsy contracted with the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mountjoy and Lancaster Railroad (HPMtJ&L) to buy and use equipment over both roads ...
The Cincinnati, Cambridge and Chicago Short Line Railway was incorporated in Indiana on January 25, 1853, to build from New Castle southeast via Cambridge to the Ohio state line; the Cincinnati, New Castle and Michigan Railroad was incorporated April 11 of the same year to build northwest from New Castle towards St. Joseph, Michigan. The two ...
The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad opened the line from Allegheny (Pittsburgh) west to Crestline in 1851, [2] 1852, [3] and 1853; [4] the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge connected it to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Main Line in downtown Pittsburgh in 1857. [5] From Crestline west to Fort Wayne, the Ohio and Indiana Railroad opened the line in 1853 [4 ...
The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming . Headquartered in Coshocton, Ohio , the system operates 500 miles (800 km) of track divided among 10 subsidiary railroads.